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Ria Banerjee
@ria4983.bsky.social
· Dec 20
I've rarely had reason to do year-end pub lists, but this year I published my first monograph which was a decade in the making.
It's about mainstream British modernists and how they conceived of pub+private spaces.
It's also about how we make intellectual space in classes and in #moderniststudies
It's about mainstream British modernists and how they conceived of pub+private spaces.
It's also about how we make intellectual space in classes and in #moderniststudies
Arrived at J Pierpont Morgan's house ready to judge him hard for his library
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Arrived at J Pierpont Morgan's house ready to judge him hard for his library
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We're overjoyed to announce next summer's star-studded line-up of scholars. Join us at Merton College, University of Oxford, 4-12 July 2026, for an unforgettable week of poetry!
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We're overjoyed to announce next summer's star-studded line-up of scholars. Join us at Merton College, University of Oxford, 4-12 July 2026, for an unforgettable week of poetry!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Totally mindblowing thing happened this morning in undergrad class where students (yes multiple) said they preferred to write long papers. They were mad about my 3-part short answers final because they wanted to go deep into a single topic not piecemeal into many
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Totally mindblowing thing happened this morning in undergrad class where students (yes multiple) said they preferred to write long papers. They were mad about my 3-part short answers final because they wanted to go deep into a single topic not piecemeal into many
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Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.
A fantastic piece that gets into the details of what a great Humanities classroom looks like. I love the focus on what to do versus what not to do—and why.
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
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A crew in McFarland, CA worked to pick the last lemons left in these orchards. Workers are paid piece rate for each of the large 900 lb bins seen in this picture. They earn a lot less during this late season, but that’s true almost everywhere this time of year. #WeFeedYou
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A crew in McFarland, CA worked to pick the last lemons left in these orchards. Workers are paid piece rate for each of the large 900 lb bins seen in this picture. They earn a lot less during this late season, but that’s true almost everywhere this time of year. #WeFeedYou
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
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My latest essay is available open access for the next two weeks! Pls read and share x
What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My latest essay is available open access for the next two weeks! Pls read and share x
Today in To the Lighthouse book club, we talked about lot about the dinner scene at the end of section 1, especially Mrs Ramsay and Lily. And just as we were putting on our coats to leave for the next classes and meetings, one student goes: I wanted to ask you all, what is the price of friendship?
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Today in To the Lighthouse book club, we talked about lot about the dinner scene at the end of section 1, especially Mrs Ramsay and Lily. And just as we were putting on our coats to leave for the next classes and meetings, one student goes: I wanted to ask you all, what is the price of friendship?
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We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is [email protected] and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is [email protected] and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)
At that point in the semester when we are mixing our turmeric shots with vodka for a nightcap
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
At that point in the semester when we are mixing our turmeric shots with vodka for a nightcap
I know that long assignments are not always good or appropriate. I also know it's a real skill to write succinctly about research. But if a composition course doesn't build writing stamina (and in this example, there was v little reading too) then what is the point
Kindof a shitpost but I just came across a 200-level Comp II writing course where the final paper is 1250 - 1500 words and I, erm...
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I know that long assignments are not always good or appropriate. I also know it's a real skill to write succinctly about research. But if a composition course doesn't build writing stamina (and in this example, there was v little reading too) then what is the point
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I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota literally has a sex den at the center of the political world and then they have global civil war oh wait what
Seems possible that this is about even more than underage women.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota literally has a sex den at the center of the political world and then they have global civil war oh wait what
Kindof a shitpost but I just came across a 200-level Comp II writing course where the final paper is 1250 - 1500 words and I, erm...
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Kindof a shitpost but I just came across a 200-level Comp II writing course where the final paper is 1250 - 1500 words and I, erm...
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he was like: in the wake of our massive victory what issues do you want to see Mamdani focus on.
me: it's just a small one but I want to be the one to bulldoze the elizabeth street garden. lemme drive the machine. also: free CUNY.
me: it's just a small one but I want to be the one to bulldoze the elizabeth street garden. lemme drive the machine. also: free CUNY.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
he was like: in the wake of our massive victory what issues do you want to see Mamdani focus on.
me: it's just a small one but I want to be the one to bulldoze the elizabeth street garden. lemme drive the machine. also: free CUNY.
me: it's just a small one but I want to be the one to bulldoze the elizabeth street garden. lemme drive the machine. also: free CUNY.
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Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
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"the heist film offers audiences a spectacle of highly choreographed expertise. From Rififi to Sneakers to Soderbergh canon (Out of Sight Logan Lucky Oceans 11–13), the genre has generated some of cinema’s most powerful allegories of collective action"
homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"the heist film offers audiences a spectacle of highly choreographed expertise. From Rififi to Sneakers to Soderbergh canon (Out of Sight Logan Lucky Oceans 11–13), the genre has generated some of cinema’s most powerful allegories of collective action"
homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
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Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
It's a small thing but I've recently taken to strategically accusing all my young researcher friends of hating Woolf. This jolts them into saying what they like about her ideas. Additionally, they are all wonderful humans who don't want to hurt me so they insist they will read more of her work 💁🏾♀️
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's a small thing but I've recently taken to strategically accusing all my young researcher friends of hating Woolf. This jolts them into saying what they like about her ideas. Additionally, they are all wonderful humans who don't want to hurt me so they insist they will read more of her work 💁🏾♀️
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The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...